Close Ups

General | Nov 2004

Reviews

Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2004-12-08
From Italy: mostly instrumental raw surf/rockabilly/twangy garage stylings that kick some serious butt. These guys recently laid waste to the Parkside and were swamped by the crowd afterwards who bought up all their cds. Channeling Link Wray, Billy Lee Riley w/ a dash of the Cramps. Great stuff from a great up and coming local label.

1) upbeat rockabilly surf feel, instrumental
2) backbeat sex swing w/ vocs
3) tom tom heavy beat, instrumental
4) cleaner epic surf feel, w/ yee-haws and yells
5) smarmy rock feel
6) minor key acoustic guitar strumming and whistling starts this swingy spaghetti western tinged ditty
7) balls out bashing “surf fever” call out
8) tom tom riffy heavy triplet rock
9) cool go go girl surf beat and great licks
10) fun urgent more rock than surf, w/ vocs
11) twangy classic surf w/ narrative voice over story telling

Recent airplay

Trinity
Fiction RomanceJul 12, 2007
Somethin' Voodoo
Morning GloryMar 12, 2005
Wicked
Stirling's ApproximationMar 07, 2005
Cold Lola
Distraction-LimitedFeb 18, 2005
Kerumph
Brownian MotionFeb 02, 2005
Beer Me Up Mr. Sten!
Stirling's ApproximationJan 31, 2005

Charting

2005-01-09 — 2005-03-13
Week EndingAirplays
Mar 13 2
Feb 20 1
Feb 6 2
Jan 30 3
Jan 23 1
Jan 16 5

Track listing

1. If I Had Wheels
2. My Pussycat
3. Kerumph
4. Rancho Relaxo
5. Cold Lola
6. Trinity
7. Surf Feva
8. Somethin' Voodoo
9. Beer Me Up Mr. Sten!
10. Wicked
11. Delawares -Feat. Tim Kerr